Click above images to enlarge Cappon, Isaac, House 228 West 9th Street, Holland - Ottawa County Property Type frame house Historic Use DOMESTIC/single dwelling Current Use DOMESTIC Style Italianate Late Victorian Architect/Builder John R. Kleyn Significant Person Isaac Cappon Narrative Description The Isaac Cappon House is a two-story, basically T-shaped, clapboarded, Italianate structure with a cupola-crowned hip roof and a one-story rear wing. The small tract of property on which the house now stands also contains a two-story, hip-roof, horse stable, now used as a garage. Statement of Significance The Isaac Cappon House has historical significance as the home of early Holland settler and civic, church, and business leader Isaac Cappon, who operated the Cappon and Bertsch tannery, the mainstay of Holland's economy in the late nineteenth century, and who served as the first mayor of the city of Holland. The house is also important in architectural terms as Holland's finest Italianate house and as one of the oldest large houses remaining in the city, which was all but obliterated by a conflagration in October 1871. Marker Name The Cappon House / Isaac Cappon Marker Text THE CAPPON HOUSE Completed in 1874, this Italianate home was built by John R. Kleyn for Isaac Cappon. Erected in the aftermath of the devastating Holland fire of 1871, the Cappon House is one of the finest extant homes in the city. It remained in the Cappon family until the death of Isaac's daughter Lavina in 1978. Its furnishings were willed to the Netherlands Museum, which with the help of the city, acquired the property in 1981. Volunteer groups have restored and preserved the elegant home. ISAAC CAPPON Isaac Cappon (1830-1902) emigrated from the Netherlands to the United States in 1847. After a brief stay in Rochester, New York, he came to Michigan's Holland Colony in 1848. Here he worked as a laborer in a local tannery. In 1857 he helped found the Cappon & Bertsch Leather Company, one of Holland's leading nineteenth-century industries. When Holland incorporated in 1867, Cappon became its first mayor. He held that office for four subsequent, but not successive, terms. Cappon was prominent in both church and civic affairs. Period of Significance 1866-1900 Significant Date(s) 1872, 1874 Registry Type(s) 11/14/1984 Marker erected 01/26/1984 National Register listed 11/30/1983 State Register listed Site ID# P24529